News archive 01/2021 for International Politics and Society | IPS Journal

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Reuters

Foreign and security policy

How Biden can boost the global economy

A people's vaccine, corporate tax, climate action. A few simple steps Biden could take for a more equitable global recovery

By Jayati Ghosh

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

US exceptionalism is dead, long live US exceptionalism

The idea of American exceptionalism is clearly bankrupt. But Biden's foreign policy still offers a slimmed-down version of it

By Paul Hockenos

Reuters

Interviews

'First time China has accepted any regulation on workers’ rights'

Is the EU-China investment deal a success story? An interview with European Parliament trade negotiator Bernd Lange

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Tunisia’s struggle for democracy isn't over

10 years after the revolution, patronage and populism rule the country. But Tunisians want a deeper form of democracy

By Henrik Meyer

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

The EU's vaccine 'non-diplomacy'

The EU disregards the Chinese and Russian vaccines. But without financial support, that's a luxury Europe's East can't afford

By Denis Cenuşa

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Unsplendid isolation: Britain after ‘Brexit’

A Biden presidency — allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ — leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role

By Paul Mason

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Democrats need to go bold, or else lose in 2022

To avoid another, possibly worse, iteration of Trumpism, Democrats have one simple task: to help people and to do it fast

By Ezra Klein

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Global vaccination II

Too few vaccinations and too little trust in the government. Dispatches from France, Nigeria and Brazil

By Benjamin Schreiber, Daniel Mann, Christoph Heuser

Reuters

Future of social democracy

Joe Biden's 100-day recovery plan

The new US President's ambitious rescue plan could become the bailout that Americans so desperately need

By Knut Dethlefsen

Reuters

Foreign and security policy

Whose post-pandemic century?

Asian countries managed Covid-19 far better than the West. But it remains to be seen whether 2020 marked the beginning of a new 'Asian Century'

By Bill Emmott